Orkney Dragonhead Stout (Bottle)

Brewed by Orkney (Sinclair Breweries)
Style: Stout
Stromness, Orkney, Highlands & Islands, Scotland

Pours an ebony color, ith glints of a burnt brown peeking in around the edges. Aroma is roasted, with the typical and called for coffee and cocoa notes. Some dark fruits do seem to try and come through as well. The flavor is a bit odd, touch of acidity, and tons of coffee, but there is an odd component, herbal perhaps, that is a bit out of sorts. Not bad.

500 ml bottle, via SoLan/TheCheeseMan. Pours a flat black body with some brownish edges under a small fizzy brown head that settled to a thin creamy covering. The nose on this is just great, heavy roast and smoke with some lighter bitter chocolate and coffee. Just a hint of hoppiness. The flavor is slightly lactic with heavy roasted barley and dark brewed coffee up front. Finishes with a slight hoppy kick that doesn’t really meld too well with the roast to me. Mouthfeel is slightly oily with a slight stickiness on the finish. Slightly fizzy carbonation with a little too much pricklyness for me. Overall, I liked this for the most part. If the hops were a little more toned down on the finish and featured the roastiness more it would have been even better. It does get some points for uniqueness though.

Black with a huge, but quickly disappearing head. The aroma has notes of smoke and as long as it still is pretty cold, it reminds me of "Jerky", that is dried, smoked meat for dogs. When it gets warmer it’s licorice. The flavour is nice! it has smoke, malt, bitterness, chocolate, fruit and licorice. The finish has a nice bitterness. As it gets warmer it’s smoother and more chocolate-like. A lot of taste in spite of the low ABW - a like that!!

Bottle, bought @ Skjold Burne, Lilletorv, Aarhus. Pours utterly black with a small frothy baige head. Good lacing. Aroma is deeply roasted with tones of chocolate and coffee. Mouthfeel is light, and could be mistaken for a little too thin. Flavour balances hard roasted malts well with lots of chocolate.

smooth and very typical of a stout. all you would expect in proper measure. low alcohol not noticeable and extra points for that. velvety and creamy but not too much so. touch of chocolate this is fairly good.

Poured a deep black with a dense, thick brown-tan head. Big frothy lacing. Nose of big robust chocolate coffee syrup. Peaty, nutty and super robust. Thick salty nutty, mildly bitter, and chalky flavor. Pretty damn smooth!

Whoaaa.. I hope something was wrong with this. It tasted like twisted metal. Definately a watery, unimpressive stout. I should have flushed my dollars down the toilet.

16.9 ounce bottle in pint glass. Black with dense light brown head and some lace. Chocolate syrup, coffee, and chocolate chip cookie aroma. Roasted chocolate flavor with clean medium bitter finish. Medium body and carbo. A nice sessionable stout.